Delivered at Governor's Academy 2009 to Cross Country team

1. Running The Ultimate Goal Setting Sport! Chris Kealey

2. We all love goal setters!

3. Goal setting 101 1. Set priorities 2. State goals positively 3. Clearly define your goals (Specific, Written and Reviewed regularly) 4. Lock on to an exciting, imaginable end result 5. Write your goals down! 6. Keep goals confidential Share them only with people who can help you accomplish the goal 7. Update goals regularly

4. Contributing Factors to a successful goal setter Focus The Power of the Word Attitude Hard Work Do not fear failure

5. Focus “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” Henry Ford

6. Focus

7. The Power of the Word Words can be positive and negative Simple Words can set the tone for a day, a week, a month or for a lifetime Wordscreate Pictures which bring about EMOTIONS! Some of the toughest words come from your toughest critic….guess who YOU!

8. Attitude – The Deal Maker

9. Attitude – The Deal Maker “The 4 minute mile” A story about attitude For years, the 4-minute mile was considered not merely unreachable but, according to physiologists of the time, dangerous to the health of any athlete who attempted to reach it. Nonetheless it was broken by Roger Bannister on May 6th 1954 in 3:59.4 seconds

10. Attitude – The Deal Maker John Landy, considered one of the great milers of that era, never had gotten closer than within 1.5 seconds of the 4-minute barrier before. Within 46 days of Bannister's breakthrough, Landy surpassed the record with a 3:57.9 in Finland. By the end of 1957, 16 runners had logged sub-4-minute miles.

11. The Right Attitude is Everything Nothing had really changed. The mile was still 5280 feet long. The shoes were same. Runners had not fantastically come from another planet. They simply changed their attitude during training and when they raced. They believed they could do it. SIDE NOTE: Daniel Komen of Kenya holds the world 2-mile record of 7:58.61, set in 1997, which is two sub-4 minute miles back-to-back.

12. Hard Work “just because you live in a cave doesn’t make you a geologist” Deliberate, mindful practice with feedback Practice out of your “comfort zone” Coached by a superior mentor "I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -- Benjamin Franklin

13. Learn to Fail or Fail to Learn “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

15. Age 23: Defeated for state legislature

16. Age 24: Failed in business

17. Age 27: Nervous breakdown

18. Age 34: Ran for congress and defeated

19. Age 39: Defeated again

20. Age 46: Ran for senate and defeated

21. Age 47: Defeated for nomination for vice president

23. Why we do it! “Over the years I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started… self satisfaction and a sense of achievement.” Steve Prefontaine